Markus Söder – what drives him, what drives him? Probably three things: ambition, even more irrepressible; Anger (suppressed because he doesn’t want to be a bad loser against Armin Laschet); and fear – of doing even worse in the next election than in the last state election.
In the case of the CSU under him as boss, the historically worst result, around 37 percent. By the way, Horst Seehofer had to go for 38 percent, at the massive instigation of – Söder. Now there is no one in the CSU today who could put Söder under such pressure on his or her part as he did on his predecessor years ago.
All sore or whatever: that’s his luck – but also a challenge. He can’t blame anyone. In fact. If it weren’t for Laschet with his flaws as a candidate for Chancellor. They also add to the CSU. Laschet doesn’t want anyone in that before he was Federal Chancellor for even one day.
In addition, the Free Voters have an impact on the situation in Bavaria, the coalition partner that the supposedly powerful CSU actually needs. FW boss Hubert Aiwanger, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economics, has his own mind, contradicts in the corona policy and beyond. That scratches the image of Söder as the great maker, who cannot be stopped, who rules everywhere, and it annoys him very much.
The fact that Aiwanger does not want to be vaccinated personally, for example, gave Söder a welcome opportunity to criticize him in a way that outraged him. He, Söder, is worried about him – that’s a very subtle way of questioning Aiwanger’s ability as a whole.
And it is reminiscent of the word of the “dirty things” that Seehofer used to refer to Söders doings. After all, Aiwanger has stressed more than once that he sees vaccination as part of the strategy against Corona: “Overall,” it “certainly makes sense”. The Bavarian Prime Minister may be counting on the fact that Aiwanger will lose his nerve because of his targeted provocations and that new elections will be necessary in the end.
According to the motto: Whoever leaves the government will lose – the free voters. And for Söder the way would be free to pursue his ideas of black-green cooperation up to a coalition. At the state level. Unless Laschet couldn’t hold out. At the federal level, Söder has been a driver in this direction for a long time.
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